Onslaught

It’s tempting to say that I have been lazy and simply not bothered blogging, but the truth is I have been incredibly busy at work, and as I’m still new and still finding my feet it means everything takes a long time and so busy hours seem busier than they would if it was a job I was used to. If you see what I mean….

It’s fair to say that the ‘staycation’ industry is booming. We are fully booked for the entire 2021 season, we have waiting lists of people hoping to snatch a holiday if someone cancels, and we’re still getting dozens of calls a day asking if we have anything available anytime at all; not to mention the hundreds of online enquiries.

It’s exhausting.

We barely have time to deal with the people onsite at the moment, because we’re swamped by questions from potential customers. Some guy in Nottingham even offered to pay us four times the usual costs, and allow me to spend a night with his wife, if we could only see fit to let them use one of our caravans for two weeks in August. He got very disturbed and very angry when I refused to dump some family from their Summer holiday just because he made us a better offer (in his opinion).

Are people really that desperate for a break away from their own homes? I suppose it’s been different for us as we live in a lovely little cottage in the middle of farmland, so ‘lockdown’ for us has been a quiet time surrounded by Nature. Maybe if I lived with three generations of my family in a two-roomed apartment in the middle of a built-up City, the last 12 months may have been a lot harder, and I too may have been giving out sexual favours for the chance of a weekend away.

RC 22-4-21